Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
Baltasar Gracian
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
Bob Edwards
A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go.
Max Eastman
I should stop myself from dying if a good joke or a good idea occurred to me
Voltaire
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.
Robert Frost
The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded
George Orwell
A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.
Joseph Conrad
Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
George Eliot
Jokes are better than war. Even the most aggressive jokes are better than the least aggressive wars. Even the longest jokes are better than the shortest wars.
George Mikes
The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
H. G. Wells